IS 15345: Installation of Frameless Door and Window Shutters - Code of Practice

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IS 15345 (2003) : Installation of Frameless Door and Window
Shutters - Code of Practice [CED 13: Building Construction
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Indian Standard

INSTALLATION OF FRAMELESS DOOR
AND WINDOW SHUTTERS — CODE OF PRACTICE

ICS 91.060.50

© BIS 2003

BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS

MANAK BHAVAN, 9 BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG
NEW DELHI 110002

May 2003 Price Group 3

Building Construction Practices Sectional Committee, CED 13

FOREWORD

This Indian Standard was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, after the draft finalized by the Building
Construction Practices Sectional Committee had been approved by the Civil Engineering Division Council.

Due to an urgent need for providing a large number of low cost residential units to lower income groups of the
society, innovative techniques and new materials of construction need to be used to reduce the cost of construction.

One such technique of construction is installation of doors and windows without frames. Cost of doors and
windows normally forms about 7 percent of the total cost of a house, out of which frames account for about 1 .5
to 2 percent of the total cost. Hence, installation of frameless doors and windows can bring some economy in
construction.

Such techniques involve some special fixtures which are easy to fabricate which could be done by local artisans

also.

Considerable assistance has been rendered in the formulation of this standard by the Central Buildings Research
Institute, Roorkee.

For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied with, the final value,
observed or calculated, expressing the result of a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2 : 1960
'Rules for rounding off numerical values (revised)'. The number of significant places retained in the rounded off
value should be the same as that of the specified value in this standard.

IS 15345 : 2003

Indian Standard

INSTALLATION OF FRAMELESS DOOR
AND WINDOW SHUTTERS — CODE OF PRACTICE

1 SCOPE

This standard lays down recommendations for
installation of frameless doors and windows including
the requirements for fixtures used for this purpose.

2 REFERENCES

The Indian Standard IS 6198 : 1992 hedged, braced
and battened timber door shutters (second revisionY
is necessary adjunct to this standard. At the time of
publication, the edition indicated above was valid. All
standards are subject to revision and parties to
agreements based on this standard are encouraged to
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent
edition of the standard.

3 FIXTURES

3.1 The fixtures to be used for installation of frameless
doors and windows shall be either pivot type or fork
type as described in 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 respectively.

3.1.1 Pivot Type Fixtures

The pivot type fixture shall consist of two components,
that is, a pivot and a socket. The pivot shall be
fabricated either from angle iron or by welding mild
steel flats at right angles to form an 'I' shaped bracket.
A mild steel bar shall be welded to the shorter leg of
the pivot as shown in Fig. IE and IF. Required screw
holes shall be provided, for fixing with the shutter, in
the longer leg {see Fig. IG). The socket shall be
fabricated for welding a piece of G.I. pipe over a mild
steel square plate as shown in Fig. lA to ID. The
required dimensions of both the components, for light
as well as heavy type of door and window shutters
shall be as given in Table 1,

3.1.1.1 Alternative pivot type

Alternative pivot type of fixture as described in Fig. 2
may also be used.

3.1.2 Fork Type

This fork type fixture shall be fabricated from mild
steel flat by bending it into a U shape clamp and a
mild steel bar shall be welded to the fork at the inside
iace of the bend {see Fig. 3A). Alternatively, a single
mild steel flat bracing having one edge bent into the
shape of a loop and a mild steel bar pin welded inside
this loop {see Fig. 3A) may be used, together with a
wooden batten on the other face of the shutter. Holdfast

in the case of U shaped clamp shall consist of a mild
steel pin of diameter 16 mm bent in the shape shown
in Fig. 3B, embedded in the wall as shown in Fig. 3C.
In case of mild steel flat bracing, the holdfast shall be
fabricated from mild steel flat having one edge split
and bent in opposite directions and the other end having
a hole to receive the pin {see Fig. 3B). The dimensions
of all the components shall be as given in Table 2 read
with Fig. 3 and 4.

Table 1 Dimension Details for Pivot Fixtures

{Clause 3.\.\)
AH dimensions in millimetres.

Name of

Ref to,

Light Door

Heavy

Window

Part

Fig. 1

Door

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Bottom pivot

A

80

80

50

B

60

75

40

C

30

30

25

D

50

50

25

D

10

18

10

T

4

4

3

Top pivot

A

30

30

30

B

60

75

40

C

30

30

25

D

50

50

25

d

10

18

10

t

4

4

3

Floor socket

E

50

50

50

F

80

80

50

d.

12

20

12

t,

6

6

4

Top socket

G

30

30

30

<J.

12

20

12

4 FIXING

4.1 Pivot Type Fixture

The top socket shall be embedded in the lintel either at
the time of casting, or, a hole shall be left in the lintel,
of a diameter slightly bigger than that of socket, at the
time of casting and the socket embedded later at the
time of fixing the shutter. Similarly, the bottom socket
shall also be embedded at sill level or floor level for
windows and doors respectively. The mild steel bar of
the pivots shall be inserted in the respective sockets
after putting a steel ball in the lower socket to ensure
frictionless operation of the shutter. The pivots at the
top and bottom of the shutter shall hold the shutter in
position temporarily by screws and the plumb and
smooth rotation of the shutter shall be checked. Once
this is done and smooth operation ensured, the pivots

IS 15345 : 2003

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1 A-FLOOR SOCKET
(ISOMETRIC VIEW)

1 B-FLOOR SOCKET
(SECTION)

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OR G.T, PIPE

1C-T0P SOCKET
(ISOMETRIC VIEW)

ID -TOP SOCKET
(SECTION)

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MS BAR

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shall be screwed firmly to the shutter. The fixtures shall
be provided at the comer in case of door shutters. In
case of single leaf window shutters, the fixtures may
be provided either at corner or at centre, while for
double leaf window shutter, the fixtures shall be
provided at the corner. Fig. 5 A and 5B illustrate the
sectional detail of fixing.

4.2 Fork Type Fixtures

Holes shall be provided on the fork-cum-bracing at

the specified spacing (see Fig. 3D). A short groove
shall be cut in the shutter at the edge at the points where
fixtures are to be provided so that the bent portion of
the bracing-cum-hinge remains within the width of the
shutters. This avoids any gap which otherwise may
remain between the shutter and the joint. The holdfasts
shall be embedded in the concrete in masonry at
specified position at the time of construction. The
projected portion of the holdfast having hole shall also
be housed in the groove in the shutter. The bracing

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IN FLOOR

ELEVATION

20x 10mm
BEADING

10x10 mm
BEADING

15mm

All dimensions in millimetres.
Fig. 2 Alternate Pivot Type Fixtures

shall be loosely screwed on to the shutter at specified
positions. The shutter shall now be placed in position
and aligned so that the bracing-cum-hinge are fixed
correctly over the shutter keeping the pin downward
in the groove so that it sits over the hole of the holdfast.
Two such bracing-cum-hinges are provided for a single
door shutter, one each near the top and the bottom.
After checking the smooth operation of the shutter,
the bracing shall be screwed firmly to the shutter.

4.3 For fixing frameless door and window shutters,
jamb shall be rebited either in the masonry or.in the
plaster to cover the gap likely to be formed in such
installation between the edge of the shutter and jamb.

5 TYPE OF SHUTTER

This installation shall generally be used for fixing
ledged, braced and battened timber door and window
shutters, conforming to IS 6198.

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3C DETAILS OF FIXING
OF HOLDFAST

3 B MILD STEEL PIN HOLDFAST

-900 FOR DOOR
410 FOR WINDOW

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30 DOUBLE CLAMP FORK CUM BRACING

All dimensions in millimetres.
Fig. 3 Components for Fork System Fixtures

FORK CUM BRACING

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-ISOMETRIC VIEW

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-ISOMETRIC VIEW

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Table 2 Dimensions of Components for Fork Type Fixture

(Clause 3.1.2)

Bracing

Total Length

Bracing Length

Component

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a

b

c t

d

f

g

a

b c

t

d

e

Double

OD2a

900

40

50 5

12

25

70

a+

200

40 35

6

15

50

Ciamp

+2f

+2t

e

Single

a+

900

40

50 5

12

25

70

a+

200

40 35

6

15

50

Clamp

+2f
+2t

e

Double OD2a 900 40 30

Clamp +2f

+2t

Single a+ 900 40 50

Clamp +2f

+2t

Single
Clamp

10 25 70 a+ 200 40 35 3
e

10 25 70 a+ 200 40 35 3
e

Double 0D2a 400 25 50 5 10 25 70 a+ 180 25 35 3
Clamp +2f e

+2t

+2f
+2t

NOTES

1 Dimension T shall be slightly less than the thickness of shutter.

2 All dimensions are in millimetres.

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TOP BRACKET
EMBEDDED IN
PRECAST RCC
LINTEL

TOP PIVOT

TIMBER BATON
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25 mm THICK

TIMBER
BEAD

BOTTOM PIVOT
FLOOR SOCKET

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OR GLASS MAR8EL

5B SECTIONAL DETAILS
All dimensions in millimetres.
Fig. 5 Pivot Type Door Fixing

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